Negative Index Materials and Their Applications:Recent Mathematics Progress(Dedicated to Ham Brezis for his 70th birthday with esteem)

作     者：Hoai-Minh NGUYEN 

作者机构：EPFL SB MATHAA CAMAStation 8CH-1015 LausanneSwitzerland 

出 版 物：《Chinese Annals of Mathematics,Series B》 (数学年刊（B辑英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第38卷第2期

页      面：601-628页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070104[理学-应用数学] 0701[理学-数学] 

主　　题：Negative index materials, Localized resonance, Cloaking, Superlensing 

摘      要：Negative index materials are artificial structures whose refractive index has negative value over some frequency range. These materials were first investigated theoretically by Veselago in 1946 and were confirmed experimentally by Shelby, Smith, and Schultz in2001. Mathematically, the study of negative index materials faces two difficulties. Firstly,the equations describing the phenomenon have sign changing coefficients, hence the ellipticity and the compactness are lost in general. Secondly, the localized resonance, i.e.,the field explodes in some regions and remains bounded in some others as the loss goes to 0, might appear. In this survey, the author discusses recent mathematics progress in understanding properties of negative index materials and their applications. The topics are reflecting complementary media, superlensing and cloaking by using complementary media, cloaking a source via anomalous localized resonance, the limiting absorption principle and the well-posedness of the Helmholtz equation with sign changing coefficients.